# Have a mystery name and shipping address on my Amazon account-WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689 "2011-12-19T00:23:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/1 "2011-12-19T00:23:39Z")
I was about to mail an Amazon gift to my half-sister for her baby (due in a month), when I noticed a stranger’s name and address in one of the shipping addy’s while I was checking out. I haven’t seen any fraudulent activity on my credit card or mystery shipments to this address in the last month (acc. to Amazon’s order tracking), which thus begs the question-WTF is this guy’s name doing in there? It’s a local address by the way. Yes, I just changed my Amazon password and am about to call Visa to ensure that nobody’s used my card-I also cut and pasted the address just it case it vanishes off of Amazon. Very very strange… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/2 "2011-12-19T00:32:20Z")
I know that Amazon asks you to re-enter your credit card information if you ask them to ship to a new address (or if you edit the details of an address you have on file). So my best guess is that someone somehow logged into your Amazon account (or used it when you inadvertently left it logged in), tried to order something and have it sent to their own address, and got stopped when Amazon asked them for a credit card number. (Oh, and [pet peeve]it doesn’t [beg the question](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question)[/pet peeve].) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/3 "2011-12-19T00:39:36Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I(Oh, and [pet peeve]it doesn’t [beg the question](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question)[/pet peeve].) [pet peeve] “begs the question” is not the same as “Begging the Question” [pet peeve] ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/4 "2011-12-19T00:42:57Z")
Amazon stores my CC # online, and simply asks for me to use the “previously-entered Visa card ending in ####”, so it is conceivable that the bastard could have done something perfidious with it. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/5 "2011-12-19T00:45:30Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Amazon stores my CC # online, and simply asks for me to use the “previously-entered Visa card ending in ####”, so it is conceivable that the bastard could have done something perfidious with it. If you enter an all-new address, it makes you reenter all your credit card info as a security measure. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/6 "2011-12-19T01:02:13Z")
Well nothing hinky with either my Amazon acct or Visa card (so far)-the Amazon lady insisted that I must have used that address to ship something there in the last 2 years-I know I am absent-minded but frankly I absolutely can’t imagine sending something to this person, nor do I recall seeing this address on Amazon before. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/7 "2011-12-19T01:06:04Z")
Oh dear lord (yes I am the world’s most absent-minded git :p:mad::D)-it was a computer shop 17 months ago when I rebuilt my machine (seeing the addy in Google maps sparked my memory), and he needed a replacement part ASAP so I had Amazon overnight it. \ At least it made me switch my Amazon PW which probably isn’t a bad thing in and of itself. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/8 "2011-12-19T18:21:03Z")
Add Vitamin D and Folic Acid to your pill regimen. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/9 "2011-12-19T20:58:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [pet peeve] > > “begs the question” is not the same as “Begging the Question” > > [pet peeve] I can’t find any source that differentiates between them and dozens that say they refer to the same logical fallacy. Can you give a cite to support your assertion? (Or is your statement itself an example of petitio principii and I’ve just been whooshed?) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/10 "2011-12-19T22:40:48Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > I can’t find any source that differentiates between them and dozens that say they refer to the same logical fallacy. Can you give a cite to support your assertion? (Or is your statement itself an example of petitio principii and I’ve just been whooshed?) +1 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/11 "2011-12-20T00:34:36Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Add Vitamin D and Folic Acid to your pill regimen. > ~VOW Tell me about it. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-mystery-name-and-shipping-address-on-my-amazon-account-wtf/606689/12 "2011-12-20T00:56:04Z")
closed at the request of the OP.